Becoming a Father in the Digital Age

So as the date draws nearer for my wife to have our kid (9/29 is the date give or take a few) I find myself obsessed with “what ifs of parenting” which is THE WORST way to look at things. I go over scenario after scenario in my head, good, bad, and indifferent. I all end up doing is creating more questions.

Then the whole Time magazine breastfeeding article hit the world to a mixed view of horror, shock, repulsion and meh so what. Then all the types of parenting “styles” came out:
     •Attachment parenting is also called responsive parenting. Parents are responsive in every way to the needs of their child, and the child responds by forming a closer bond.
     •Uninvolved parenting doesn’t set rules for children, or offer emotional support or otherwise get involved in their children’s lives.
     •Indulgent parenting or permissive parenting is when parents raise their kids without making any demands or setting any expectations. Parents often bond with their kids, but never teach them how to properly behave. The main effect of this style is kids will be more responsible with their actions and have the freedom to choose.
     •Babywise parenting focuses on putting the parental relationship as the important factor in the family unit, and never let children come between the parents or interfere with the parents in any way.
     •Authoritative parenting is simultaneously demanding and responsive, assertive but not intrusive. They set high expectations and clear rules for children while providing affection and emotional support.

As Lynn and I both post sonogram images of the upcoming kid I found myself wondering is that the right thing to do. I know I want to share my joy with all my friends. Most of the people I am friends with on Facebook are people who have known me through the hideous-emo high school years of bad poetry and sulking, the college folks who met the happy wide-eyed ready for anything me, and the various co-workers who have become dear friends over the years knowing the passionate, angry, grumpy and funny guy that shows up for a 9 to 5. I am a pretty open guy, most everyone knows the rule: “Don’t ask me a question you don’t actually want an answer to.”

Then I read this article on Parenting.com, “An Open Letter to the Breastfeeding Boy on the Cover of Time” and it really gave me pause. This particular quote really hit me:
“I’m worried about this kind of fame for you. Obviously I don’t know your mother’s intentions, but it’s no surprise to me that 3,000 moms offered to reveal themselves on a national magazine cover. Why? Because people love using their children to get attention. We use our kids to make ourselves seem more interesting and compelling. We post pictures of them in the bathtub on Facebook. We use their annoying behaviors and amazing triumphs as status updates. We Instagram them. We Tumblr them. We blog about them.”

So how far is too far?

How much info about your kid on the web is too much?

Will posting all those cute videos of the weird, funny, ridiculous and funny to us -- but embarrassing to them stuff -- we post come back to haunt not us, but them?

I feel terribly for that boy on the Times cover. I KNOW that will come back to haunt him when he’s 13 and yet he wasn’t even a thought in my head when the article first came out. That’s what makes me feel the worst. I just thought “wow that lady’s got a set of balls to put that out there like that” and never gave a single thought to the kid.

It just hit me that I can’t simply dismiss Facebook like I normally do. Not only do I have to care what other kids might say about my kid later but I need to worry about what I post about my kid now.

Just another “what if” scenario I need to add to my growing list of thoughts and worries.

DCnU? Hell Yes Please!

Reboot, new costumes, new writers and artists, new superhero teams HELL YES! I just finished pouring over this month’s Previews and I can’t wait for September! I think for whatever reason I am the only person excited by the DCnU (sweet Jesus what a crap moniker). I like when companies try to change themselves, whether it’s good or bad at least they try.

Marvel has been called “The House of Idea” ever since I worked there back in the late 90s. Sure they crank out a great movie here or there but the comics are kind of bleh as of late. I am reading more DC comics than Marvel but I don’t think it’s because DC is a trail blazer I mean it is DC the company who never really takes a risk, but I think because they have allowed a wider variety of writer to do their books.

Marvel has what 4 of them and they each right 3 books a piece? Yes I know I am exaggerating but really Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, and Brian Michael Bendis all seem to be on every book. I don’t begrudge those guys I think they are decent writers (though Invincible Iron Man is a snooooze-fest as of late) Marvel always seemed to put all its writing eggs in one basket and has yet to learn from that mistake. DC however seems to give more newish writers a shot than Marvel does and I think it shows in the content they put out.

Now back to the DCnU. I think as geeks we aren’t truly happy unless we are bitching about something. So all the arguments I hear against DCnU sound like this: What about numbering? What about all those years of continuity? The costumes look stupid, the costumes are a throwback to the 90s etc. This just flies in the face of their core readership! Digital will kill the local shop owners! and it goes on and on. So let’s address these “major” complaints:

1.       What about the numbering?

a.       I’ve been collecting comics since I was eight I’ve seen comics titles renamed, rebooted and renumbered more times than I can actually remember hell Marvel just did it with Thor. Now it’s Journey into Mystery, the original title from 1962. Avengers is back to issue #17! Did anyone freak out? Nope, so who cares?

2.       What about all those years of continuity?

a.       I own Uncanny X-Men from issue 120 to present I can honestly say I DON’T CARE. They are ending Uncanny with issue 544 and relaunching TWO NEW X-TITLES. Where’s the outrage over all those years of history? Where’s the annoyance over all that lost continuity. “Oh but they aren’t going to forget all those years happened!” Really? I mean you really think they are going to mention all those years of history or are they pretty much going to start it all off as day one?

3.       The design, look, colors of the costumes are stupid!

a.       Um pssst, THIS ISN’T REAL! A dude with a giant “S” on his chest whose isn’t recognized by anyone because he wears glasses? No one notices the entire spandex suit with cape under his clothes, where the hell does he keep the red boots? All of this sounds like a great design idea? Really? Really?!

4.       This just flies in the face of their core readership!

a.       Ok this is one of my favorites, see if the core readers were enough to sustain the market then things would stay status quo, yes we geeks don’t like change but if they don’t you won’t have comics to read at all. See May’s best selling comic was Fear Itself selling 96,318 issues (Estimated Comics Sold to North American Comics Shops as Reported by DiamondComic Distributor) we sort of need more readers. And by just harping on the old stuff, stuff no one under the age of 35 remembers is probably not a good idea as a business model.

5.       Lastly, digital will kill the local shop owners!

a.       This one is classic and every small business owner cries foul with this same line about something else. For example the independent toy store owners cry that Wal-Mart is killing them and how can they compete with that? So the comic shop owners cry how can we compete with digital? The same answer applies to both businesses, OFFER SOMETHING MORE! Christ it’s a business and you need to WORK for it. So that means not being a douche bag when someone buys a comic you think is crap, or just give a straight forward answer instead of a grunt or an “I don’t know over there somewhere”. DO YOUR JOB and if you do people come back. Big Box stores win out because we as shoppers know they don’t care about us there so we don’t expect much, however a “Mom and Pop” shop implies you give damn so start acting like it!

Now the same day digital poses an interesting option. I don’t really have an interest in it for the same reason I don’t own a Kindle or a Nook, I like the prestige (and I mean geek cred) of owning the very first appearance of Sabretooth in Iron Fist #14 and being able to pull it out of the comic box and show some one. I like getting things signed by writers and artists all things you can’t do with a digital comic. On the flip side I am running out of space! I have about 19 large comic boxes, 16 in storage and 3 at home so the digital side of things makes sense I mean it’s why I stopped buying CDs; I just don’t have the space. So how can a comic shop compete with this? I will use the local shop I go to every Wednesday as an example of how:

1.       Be Pleasant and Personable: Dean is what a small business owner should be, he’s nice and respectful treats the regulars like gold and when a new person comes in asks if he can help them. Talks to the newbie for a bit to get a feel for what it is they are looking for or might like and actually makes suggestions and shows them where they are.

2.       Do Something for the Customers: He has gaming days on the weekends for Warhamer and other table top games. He also has fliers for and supports local events like marathons and conventions.

3.       Keep Current: He might not like all books he sells, hell he might not even read comics anymore but I’ll be damned if he can’t talk about any of the ones on the shelf.

4.       Be Willing to Get Product: Dean let’s you order anything out of the Diamond order form even if it means he needs to order a case when you only want 3 figures out of it. I know this because it happened with the Blackest Night Figures DC put out. I wanted 3 of a set of figures and he ordered the case rather than telling me no only if you buy the whole case.

5.       Remember It’s a Business: Be professional, I’m not saying show up in a suit but keep the store clean, keep it organized, answer questions without being Comic Guy from the Simpsons.

Will those things save your business? I don’t know but I do know anytime someone asks me about comics or where they can get stuff for their kid, niece, nephew and its geek related I point them to Clockwork Comics.

See folks a redesign, a reboot, a renumbering, or digital versions, none of these things will kill comics. Sure people buy MP3s and digital copies of movies and magazines, news papers and video games, but there are still plenty of other people who want the actual physical copy of the items. They can all exist together as long as no one forgets the merits of both. So give the (God I really hate the name) DCnU a shot, maybe the characters aren’t what you want or dreamed them to be, maybe the costumes aren’t up to your high standards, and maybe the teams seem a bit off kilter but all those things might actually be great and help you remember why you bought comics to begin with. And maybe, just maybe all those things will get someone new to grab a comic for the first time with the same sense of wonder that you did when you got yours.

My first super-hero comic was Uncanny X-Men #212 Wolverine and Sabretooth Round 1. I got it at a 7-11 and kept on reading. I know you remember your first comic and I know no one but you thought it was as amazing.

Green Lantern ... You Broke My Heart

DC...

Y U NO MAKE GOOD LIVE ACTION MOVIES!?!?!?!?

Ok so I’ve seen Thor, X-Men First Class and finally Green Lantern and I figure I might as well weigh in. I think the headline says it all but just in case WHY DC, WHY U DO THIS TO GREEN LANTERN! Be aware HUGE SPOILERS are coming.

Ok so it wasn’t complete train wreck, I mean it wasn’t Batman good, and it wasn’t Spider-Man 3 bad it just was. You never get a feel for any character, you don’t truly understand anyone’s attraction to one another sadly it missed the mark on all the things that have, as of late, made a great super-hero movie…character. From Iron Man to Thor we always get a sense of the lead character and why they are the way they are, but not in Green Lantern. Nope we have five different stories going on that don’t mesh, ever, and in fact don’t even know they are in the same movie, which does make sense seeing as there were FIVE writers!

So we have the following five stories:

1.       Parallax (Villain 1)

2.       Hal’s Origin (Green Lantern)

3.       Green Lantern Corps

4.       Carol Ferris (Love interest/romantic story)

5.       Hector Hammond (Villain 2)

Hasn’t anyone learned that writing by committee never works? I mean obviously not. But there you go, was Green Lantern a wretched movie, no it was simply something to watch and forget about two seconds after you leave the theatre. And incidentally almost all of the DC Cartoon flicks have ONE writer and are exponentially better than any live action flick DC/Warner has put out.

Let’s go with I thought was done right, Sinestro (Mark Strong)! Yes the character with the least amount of screen time was done the best. From the moment you saw him he was a badass right until the bit in the closing credits when he dons the yellow ring. Mr. Strong either read comics or had the forethought to go read the Sinestro Corps War. Of course this was awesome from a comic geek standpoint; no one else understood the meaning of him putting on the yellow ring because you never get a sense of the “why”.

Honestly I don’t fault the actors for the lack of emotional impact for the viewers, though Blake Lively while nice to look at, sweet Jesus take some acting lessons! Anyway the people I blame for this lack luster film are the writers (all FIVE of them), director and suits who all too often concern themselves with merchandising rather than a decent story. Then need to cram as much crap as possible into a film always escapes me but I guess if you only had 3 action figures to make what’s the point right?

Ryan Reynolds was serviceable as Hal Jordan. I am sure right about now he is wishing he did Deadpool, at least Marvel knows how to make a live action film. Instead Mr. Reynolds will be known as the man who flat lined Green Lantern. I mean he did what he could with the words in front of him, and perhaps someone should have sat him down and made him watch Green Lantern First Flight (only ONE writer as a side note) so he would know who Jordan is. Hell they should have just made that live action and be done with it but sadly once again DC’s cartoon movies far outshine their live action films.

Now I keep reading how everyone wanted some Sci-Fi epic and I don’t agree with at all.

What I wanted was an origin story; Hal gets the ring from Abin Sur and has to figure out how to use and what the ring is out. Then at the same time face some enemy, non-cosmic, becoming the hero he always was. Once that threat is finished Sinestro and say three Alpha Lanterns show up and Sinestro says “Hal Jordan, NEW  Green Lantern of Sector 2814, you WILL be trained!” Hal ends up in a green bubble and off they go. BOOM sequel set and you get a small taste of how Sinestro acts.

Then in the sequel we can see Sinestro and Hal become great friends, that way when Sinestro dons the yellow ring the betrayal hits even harder and makes sense, unlike the end credit teaser.

One question that eats at me all the time — why they hell do all the movie companies keep killing the villains! They NEVER die in the comics but hell we’ll slaughter them wholesale in movie so we can never get the great character moments of hero versus their nemesis. The whole point of the super-hero is the rouges gallery of villains and all that hatred and remorse that goes along with them! No we can’t have that just bring in more villains that always works right? Right? Spider-Man 3 I’m looking at you…in shame.

It could have been fantastic but DC/Warner Bros. will never learn the lesson of less is more. I mean how many characters are going to be in the next Batman flick? Well at least three that will need full backgrounds; Catwoman, Bane, Ra’s al Ghul, then you add Batman, Alfred and Commissioner Gordon and we get to six characters that need a good amount of screen time, sigh maybe they will surprise us. But I doubt it.

 I can’t wait for Captain America! Marvel can’t make a cartoon to save its life but damn they OWN live action.

A Sequel, a “Reimagining” and a Few Questions

So I saw Iron Man 1 and 2 back to back this past Thursday. Was Iron Man 2 better than 1, well no, but it was a blast to watch and almost as good as the 1st one. I mean I know there are a handful of sequels that were better than the 1st one but hey what’s wrong with being as good as the 1st? Why do they need to top it?

No one in the nearly sold out 12am showing moaned or groaned during the movie. Hell they all clapped and I was sitting among my people, gaming and comic geeks! The guys behind me were discussing Nier before the previews we all busted on the First Look Sex In The City 2 and pondered just who the hell that was intended for because we sure as hell weren’t the target demo, but I digress.

So this was THE crowd to see it with. They are the ultimate critics and can in fact make or break a flick, I mean if the hardcore geeks don’t like it why would you?

Iron man 2 has the faults of all major comic book movie sequels they try to jam too many characters into the story, so you don’t really get a true sense for the character. Now if you saw Iron Man 1 then you know Pepper, Tony, and Rhodes and of course Nick Fury.

While I LOVE Scarlet Johansen and I mean love her so much I’d kill my family for her, she wasn’t really necessary but nice to ogle throughout the flick. Happy Hogan, John please stay out of your movies, you gave the limo driver way too much screen time. The villains were enjoyable, Mickey Rourke is great, but underutilized here due t all the characters needing screen time. His comes off as such a badass and we don’t ever really get to see it. The other villain was Justin Hammer. His psychopathic need to BE Tony Stark was great. Though I don’t remember him being such a putz in the comics.

Tony is his usual jackass self and because he is so self-centered he causes almost all his problems in the film. So while this isn’t Demon in a Bottle it sort of plays with that storyline and gives you a hint of it at Tony’s birthday party. But this movie was created for people who have seen the 1st one. If you haven’t you won’t feel lost but you’ll feel like you’ve missed something.

I do however HATE and I mean HAAAATE when you show scenes in the previews then cut them from the film. Pepper kissing the helmet not in the flick, Scarlet using the Iron Man repulsor … not in the movie. And with this crowd at the end of the flick a lot of them were wondering where those scenes were. So note to film makers KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF. Don’t show me chocolate cake and then when I order it serve me pudding!

Iron Man 2 is just a damn fun movie to watch I really liked it a ton and it was well worth the $10.50!

Now for a movie that really wasn’t worth the $8 I paid to see it as a matinee. Nightmare On Elm Street. Yes, yes I know you are thinking, “Jason really? Why would you see that you knew it was going to suck.” Well yes and no. See I go check out the “reimaginings” because well I can’t help myself, I love crappy horror films. Now it wasn’t total crap, the new Freddy is AWESOME. I hated him because he was such a nasty, filthy scum bag. And he loved being that way. That’s the kind of monster that scares, a killer that knows what he is, loves it and has no remorse for his deeds, in fact it’s the victims fault if there is anyone to blame. He made my skin crawl. The rest of the cast however, well live die no one cared and by no one I mean the craptacular actors in the film didn’t seem to care their friends got diced and the audience sure as hell didn’t care at all.

So was it as terrible as everyone claims, no, was it good, not really it was passable.

Now for my questions:

1. Why does a sequel need to be better?

2. Why do people bitch about a character not being like they were in the original in a reimagining? Isn’t that the point?

I say “no”. A sequel needs to be equal to the 1st one, it needs to move the story forward and FEEL like it’s a natural continuation of the 1st flick. You can’t continually recount everything from the 1st movie because that eats into sequel time. On all these counts Iron Man 2 is a true sequel and that’s why it’s a good flick and one you should go see, especially if you enjoyed the 1st one.

Now for the reimagining issues. Yes usually the character won’t be like the one you remember you know why? CAUSE WE’RE FREAKING OLD! A Nightmare on Elm Street first appeared in 1984 so that OVER 20 years ago, the people going to see it know WEREN’T EVEN BORN YET! So get over it. Ever watch something your parents LOVED and go sweet lord that was lame as hell? Well now you are part of that club, and so am I.

Yes they could have used better writing so you gave a damn about the kids getting killed but think back for a second did you really care about the kids back then or were you just wondering how they were going to get off’d? When you watched it a 2nd time then you cared about Nancy but really you just want to see the blood and boobs, it's a slasher flick, it's not made to impress you with story.

I’m not a huge fan of reimaginings but I always like to give them a shot you never know when you will be surprised. So far I haven’t been, I’ve been entertained but I have yet to walk out of anything that had to do with my childhood/teen years and be like “Hell yes that was 100 times better!” But I will still go and beat my head against that brick wall in the hopes one day I do. So when does Predators come out?

Ah Sweet Sweet Halloween!

This is second only to Christmas as my favorite holiday. I mean when else can you give candy to little kids and not end up having to register with the town due to Megan’s Law? Ok, ok I know a few of you are like “Dude that was soooooooo not right.” But think about it random kids, some with adults, some without, all showing up at your place to get candy I mean what pedo-bear can resist!

I have such fond memories of Halloween, all the candy. Well except that one year when the crap all started. You know the “good ol’days” when you could go out there with your friends and not worry about some scary dude kidnapping you or eating a wonderful apple only to find a razor blade in it, which is a HUGE urban legend. Those wonderful vinyl costumes that have now been deemed such a fire hazard they got banned. Ahhhhh memories! I wonder how close I came to becoming permanently fused with my Chewbacca costume I guess I’ll never really know.

I do remember my mom insisted on going through all the candy I got to make sure it was all wrapped properly and safe. Actually I think it was a ploy so she could select the candy she wanted before I went into a sugar induced craze.

So what the hell has happened? Where are all the ghoulies and beasties? Is it that we have more nutbags now or do we just have more news outlets reporting on them whipping people into a No Trick or Treat frenzy? When I lived on Long Island I lived right across from an elementary school. We lived there for over 5 years and never got a single trick or treater. Not one! Which was fine with me because then I got to eat all the candy I bought and wreck terrible vengeance on my co-workers as I entered that sweet, sweet sugar high.

Maybe parents either don’t want to send their kids out or just don’t have time to go out with their kids. Maybe you don’t know who your neighbors are so you don’t know who to trust. I’ve lived in my apartment complex going on three years now and I have no idea who my neighbors are at all.

It just breaks my heart to think of all those kids never getting to experience the joys of a pillow case full of candy, the mouthful of cavities, and the belly ache the next day and possible vomiting from over indulgence. They won’t get that thrill of ringing a doorbell and not knowing if they would get candy, get yelled at or get the shit scared out of them from a guy in a mask.

DAMN IT PEOPLE! It’s a right of passage! Don’t deny your munchkins those joys! Get out there, get them a costume, and give them a pillow case and let them stuff themselves like Piñatas!

Where The Wild Things Are

Ok so my girlfriend and I saw this on Sunday (10/18/09). It was FANTASTIC, I loved it, it made me happy, made me sad and made me remember what a real mess childhood actually is. Now all I read are how this isn't a kids' movie and how it doesn't go anywhere. Whine, cry, whine I don't remember it being like this.

We all have this magical notion of what growing up was/is like, well get your heads out of your asses. We all had crap we hated about childhood and loved, it wasn’t the Normal Rockwell painting or Little House on the Prairie. It was tough on a lot of levels and adults need to remember and recognize that. THIS is what made Where the Wild Things Are such a stellar book. It put words to what kids were feeling and made adults remember oh yeah growing up was kind of crappy and confusing.

Is this a flick for kids, well no, but have you read the damn book lately? It’s not exactly a “kids” book either. It is kind of dark as well. It’s one of the reasons it took so long after it was first published to garner any type of awards. People even HATED, yes HATED the book. Just watch the interview with Mr. Sendak here on dailymotion.com.

Now for the criticism that “nothing happens”. Yes it does. Max realizes, I believe KW sums it up perfectly, being a family is hard. He realizes that he can’t have everything his way all the time like Carol and everyone has moments where they are unsure and feel neglected. Max goes home, his mom is waiting she gives him the HUGE I love you hug every kid and adult wants every day of their life, he eats and life goes back to what it was. Welcome to reality folks. Nothing and I mean nothing got closure for you when you were a kid. Everything went back to the status quo for you growing up until you were actually able to make some kind of change to the environment you were in. until then you were along for the ride and just prayed you never hit your head on the roof when you hit a bump.

So Where the Wild Things Are IS NOT A KIDS’ MOVIE. The book WAS NOT REALLY A KIDS’ BOOK. This is a beautiful movie, with a few pacing issues but something people should see remembering my previous statement.

Oh yeah and adults stop romanticizing all your childhood memories and actually remember for a change. It will save you time and disappointment in the long run.
Whew I feel better now.

The Dollhouse

So we are coming into episode 3 for most of the new TV season and one show is breaking my heart: Dollhouse. Now I am a professed Whedonite, Whedonist, Whendofile whatever you want to label me. I loved Buffy, I got friends and family to watch it, I then got them hooked on Angel all because Joss was doing something new for old horror. But every since Firefly something has been off with Mr. Whedon. He stories don’t have the punch, the surprise, the new way of viewing an old story. For example in the 1st season of Buffy when he took the theme of the Invisible Man and spun it around the girl becomes invisible because she is ignored and not only did the government know this happened they took them and turned them into assassins! Yes I realize it’s a very brief summary but those who know, know what I am talking about and if not click here.

Then he was just producing and giving advice but Buffy was still solid, he went off to do Angel and got that on the right track as well. So he was able to walk away from either show leaving it in the hands of some solid writers and a cast that worked well together. And I think that’s the key, the cast worked well together. There was a sense that they liked each other regardless of the plot line. Now whether that was true or not who knows, who cares it made the show enjoyable and is probably why when the leads from both series went off to a BIG movie career it pretty much became a tiny movie career. David Boreanaz having learned his lesson is back on Bones (fantastic show by the way and you should be watching it) and Sarah Michelle Gellar is…well… married to Freddie “I couldn’t act like I was in pain even if you shot me in the face” Prinze Jr. WTF happen there!?

Anyway…let’s address that, the actors that is, not Sarah’s poor choice in movie rolls and men. So far none of the characters make me care about them or the situation they are in. I don’t think to myself “Hmm I wonder how they will handle X this time.” At the end of the episode she gets wiped and things go back to base 1.

Now Eliza Dushku is hot and a solid foil or sidekick but as a lead actress, well she just doesn’t have the chops to pull it off. She isn’t a bad actress but as a lead she just doesn’t give it any punch, especially now since she is aware of what’s happening to her. But is this really her fault. I mean how can you care about a character that is always changing and getting put back to square one. Even now with her remembering things she still talks like a blow-up doll would if they could talk: “I still feel it, we feel everything.” A line that should have been dripping with emotion really driving home the ramifications of doing what they do in the Dollhouse was delivered like dead fish to market. Now maybe she was directed to do that who knows but that made me actually say “Oh come on!” Watch a few reruns of Tru Calling and I think you can see my point. But is this the fault of the actors?

Joss has only written 4 or 5 of the episodes himself and he directed those and was the producer. Perhaps he hasn’t set the right tone for the series yet so his writers just don’t know how or where to push the show. Maybe and here I think there is more than a little truth; Joss can’t do more than 2 things at once! Buffy or Angel were solid shows when he wasn’t writing them but when he took the time to write an episode and direct it those shows were the best thing on TV. So perhaps he needs to just focus on writing and directing for Dollhouse. After all who else knows better how the scenes should look and feel than the guy that wrote it.

So we are moving into episode 3 of the second season on Friday. I hope Joss pulls it together and delivers some emotional bang or gives me something I can latch onto, because right now it just seems like they are airing episodes so they can put out The Complete Dollhouse Season 1&2 on DVD.